Song Ghost & Ghost Song Oliver Smith After a performance by Sharon Gal at Xposed Club/University of Gloucestershire on 8thDecember 2017 SONG GHOST Her iron talons strike white noise from stone: Breath creaks And a single note scratches like sand In an oyster accreting a nacreous sheen. She speaks of silent seas lost…
Where Astrology Ends John Sibley Williams Thank god the stars are not your daughters anymore. & the wise man chained to a stone hacked apart, restored, just to be eaten again for bringing us fire no longer looks like your grandfather. After twelve hours in the airless factory your town was built around, the…
Skaters Ben Rosenthal The light was hurting from up there. Dom Moore and Cameron Glover, watching the Swede’s pelvis swing as she unlatched her motel door, wondered about the whereabouts of Roddy Villemeure. Glover a little more than his friend Dom, who was preoccupied by the lady as she turned the latch. Her factual motion…
Seldomstone James Warner “I’ll start a new world for us,” Beani told me. She was a lean fourteen-year-old, bald for now with a surgical scar on her forehead. Her mother, Darnice, a new parishioner of mine, had cornered me after a sparsely-attended Sunday service and invited me over for tea, having heard I was “good…
